Markus Reiner

Markus Reiner (Hebrew: מרכוס ריינר‎, born 5 January 1886, died 25 April 1976) was an Israeli scientist and a major figure in rheology.

Biography

Reiner was born in 1886 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, then part of Austria-Hungary, and obtained a degree in Civil Engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna (Vienna University of Technology). After the First World War, he emigrated to Palestine, where he worked as a civil engineer under the British mandate. After the founding of the state of Israel, he became a professor at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa. In his honour the Technion later instituted the Markus Reiner Chair in Mechanics and Rheology.

Research

Reiner was not only a major figure in rheology, he along with Eugene C. Bingham coined the term^[1] and founded a society for its study. As well as the term rheology, and his publications, he is known for the Buckingham-Reiner Equation, the Reiner-Riwlin Equation, (now usually spelled Reiner-Rivlin), the Deborah number and the Teapot effect – an explanation of why tea runs down the outside of the spout of a teapot instead of into the cup.

Awards

• In 1958, Reiner was awarded the Israel Prize, in exact science.^[2]

See also

• List of Israel Prize recipients

References

1. ^ J. F. Steffe (1996) Rheological Methods in Food Process Engineering 2nd ed ISBN 0-9632036-1-4 page 1
2. ^ "Israel Prize recipients in 1958 (in Hebrew)". Israel Prize Official Site. Archived from the original on 17 January 2010 by WebCite®. http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashyag/Tashkab_Tashyag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tashyah. 

Primary source

• G. W. Scott-Blair (1976), Rheologica Acta, volume 15 no 7/8, pages 365–266

Further reading

• D. Abir (ed) (1975) Contributions to Mechanics: Markus Reiner Eightieth Anniversary Volume: Oxford, Pergamon Press
• G. W. Scott Blair & M. Reiner (1957) Agricultural Rheology (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London)
• M. Reiner (1960) Deformation, strain and flow: an elementary introduction to rheology: London, H. K. Lewis
• M. Reiner (1964) Physics Today volume 17 no 1 page 62 The Deborah Number
• M. Reiner (1971) Advanced Rheology: London, H. K. Lewis
• M. Reiner (1975) Selected Papers on Rheology: Amsterdam, Elsevier

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